WHAT: Open our low-level communication infrastructure by moving all necessary components (btl/rcache/allocator/mpool) down in OPAL
All the components required for inter-process communications are currently deeply integrated in the OMPI layer. Several groups/institutions have express interest in having a more generic communication infrastructure, without all the OMPI layer dependencies. This communication layer should be made available at a different software level, available to all layers in the Open MPI software stack. As an example, our ORTE layer could replace the current OOB and instead use the BTL directly, gaining access to more reactive network interfaces than TCP. Similarly, external software libraries could take advantage of our highly optimized AM (active message) communication layer for their own purpose. UTK with support from Sandia, developped a version of Open MPI where the entire communication infrastucture has been moved down to OPAL (btl/rcache/allocator/mpool). Most of the moved components have been updated to match the new schema, with few exceptions (mainly BTLs where I have no way of compiling/testing them). Thus, the completion of this RFC is tied to being able to completing this move for all BTLs. For this we need help from the rest of the Open MPI community, especially those supporting some of the BTLs. A non-exhaustive list of BTLs that qualify here is: mx, portals4, scif, udapl, ugni, usnic.
This commit was SVN r32317.
- Delete unnecessary header files using
contrib/check_unnecessary_headers.sh after applying
patches, that include headers, being "lost" due to
inclusion in one of the now deleted headers...
In total 817 files are touched.
In ompi/mpi/c/ header files are moved up into the actual c-file,
where necessary (these are the only additional #include),
otherwise it is only deletions of #include (apart from the above
additions required due to notifier...)
- To get different MCAs (OpenIB, TM, ALPS), an earlier version was
successfully compiled (yesterday) on:
Linux locally using intel-11, gcc-4.3.2 and gcc-SVN + warnings enabled
Smoky cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using PGI-8.0.2 + warnings enabled
Lens cluster (x86-64 running Linux) using Pathscale-3.2 + warnings enabled
This commit was SVN r21096.
Only proc_info.h-internal include file is opal/dss/dss_types.h
- In one case (orte/util/hnp_contact.c) had to add proc_info.h again.
- Local compilation (Linux/x86_64) w/ -Wimplicit-function-declaration
works fine, no errors.
Again, let's have MTT the last word.
This commit was SVN r20631.
got a whole lot smaller, decreasing the memory footprint of the
running application. How much it's a good question. Here is a
breakdown:
- in mca_bml_base_endpoint_t: 3 *size_t + 1 * uint32_t
- in mca_bml_base_btl_t: 1 * int + 1 * double - 1 * float
+ 6 * size_t + 9 * (void*)
The decrease in mca_bml_base_endpoint_t is for each peer and the
decrease in mca_bml_base_btl_t is for each BTL for each peer.
So, if we consider the most convenient case where there is only
one network between all peers, this decrease the memory foot print
per peer by
9*size_t + 9*(void*) + 2 * int32_t + 1 * double - 1 * float.
On a 64 bits machine this will be 156 bytes per peer.
Now we access all these fields directly from the underlying BTL
structure, and as this structure is common to multiple BML endpoint,
we are a lot more cache friendly. Even if this do not improve the
latency, it makes the SM performance graph a lot smoother.
This commit was SVN r19659.
relative bandwidths of each BTL. Precalculate what part of a message should
be send via each BTL in advance instead of doing it during scheduling.
This commit was SVN r15248.
each BTL. Precalculate what part of a message should be send via each BTL in
advance instead of doing it during scheduling.
This commit was SVN r15247.
OB1 always use first element from array of BTLs available for RDMA. The patch
change the array creation algorithm, it puts different BTL in the first element
in round robin fashion.
This commit was SVN r13174.
udapl/openib/vapi/gm mpools a deprecated. rdma mpool has parameter that allows
to limit its size mpool_rdma_rcache_size_limit (default is 0 - unlimited).
This commit was SVN r12878.
- move files out of toplevel include/ and etc/, moving it into the
sub-projects
- rather than including config headers with <project>/include,
have them as <project>
- require all headers to be included with a project prefix, with
the exception of the config headers ({opal,orte,ompi}_config.h
mpi.h, and mpif.h)
This commit was SVN r8985.
- remove windows socket initialization (it's already in the TCP component)
- protect all used header files
- remove the unused ones.
This commit was SVN r8434.
- corrected memory hook callback to catch all allocations (need to optimize this)
- don't attempt to consolidate allocations
This commit was SVN r7600.
searching the tree. Modified the memory callback to search the tree at each
page boundary for registrations. This is necessary as an application may
malloc memory and send out of any portion of that memory, even discontiguous
regions.
This commit was SVN r7510.
add misc asserts to check for proper reference counting.
ugly hack 1 -- use mallopt to never release memory ala sbrk - this is
commented out in mca_btl_mvapi_component_init
ugly hack 2 -- test registrations comming out of the tree via rcache_find, for
an unknown reason the tree is returning registrations where the address is not
within the base or bound of the registration. If this happens, we return
NULL.
comment out code to enable mem hooks if leave_pinned is set, note we can do
this via an mca param and will default it to leave_pinned with mem_hooks when
we iron out these issues.
I am adding a unit test for the rcache. Note that we have a unit test for the
rb tree but the compare function is significantly different than that used for
registrations. After we have tracked down the issues with rcache_rb we will
remove the above hacks.
This commit was SVN r7499.
